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Matthew wrote and illustrated a geeky kids' book called Charlie Weatherburn and the Flying Machine. In this talk he challenges the notion that "perfect is the enemy of done" and suggests that, particularly in personal projects, the pursuit of perfection is a noble and worthy cause.

Jarod's the guy that created that beached whale and its feathered friend with the Kiwi accents. His viral video, Beached Az, kick-started his career by creating quite the splash on YouTube - in fact, more people have watched it than the entire population of New Zealand!

Jane is a Senior Product Manager at Cochlear – the leader in advanced hearing loss solutions. She discusses how the technology and software she works with is literally changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.

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Cloud hosting architects and system integrators are challenged by repetitive tasks, costs, and delegation associated with building customer portals with multiple layers of security and integrating provisioning of Microsoft products to use with XenDesktop. Learn how the Citrix Cortex technology, a front...

Ask a group of people who have run through the DirectAccess step-by-step guides, and they will report different levels of success. If DirectAccess doesn’t work, then the normal recourse has been to start again making sure that none of the steps are missed. It’s magic when it works but when it doesn’t,...

That IPv6 has arrived is a fact. There is a lot of media coverage about IPv6. It’s time to take a serious look at IPv6, but do you really need to migrate? - Which steps are involved in the migration? What are the pitfalls? - Are Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 ready for IPv6? - What do you need to do to...

This session will dive into Microsoft's new Database Consolidation Appliance reference architecture. We will explore the appliance software stack, and its relationship to SQL Server in areas like performance modelling and result measurement. Demonstrations of live migration and integration into the monitoring...

Customers are looking to further virtualize their environments: file servers, web servers, DNS servers, and even their domain controllers. It is clear that virtualization provides many benefits in areas such as deployment, disaster-recovery and lowering TCO. However, while virtualization offers many...

Configuration Manager 2012 introduces a number of hierarchy, role, and architecture changes. In this session we will provide guidance on how best to design and deploy an optimised Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure. This session covers topics such as site server roles, boundary management, discovery,...

Many of you may be confused about the complexity of setting up a large scale VDI properly. What do I optimize? Where are the bottlenecks I should think about? Tony Sanchez from Citrix Systems, Gareth James from Microsoft, and Nathan Strong from HP, will step you through a 2000 user end to end XenDesktop,...

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and learn what's really going on under the hood in an Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG). This session covers the inner workings of DAGs, including a deep dive discussion on how DAGs rely on quorum and how the DAG witness and witness server...

This presentation will showcase the magic of asynchronous programming in C# 5. We'll start with the basics: exactly what asynchronous programming is, how it differs from multithreading, and why it's become so important in today's cloud-connected world. We'll then set up scenarios to demonstrate the headache...